All ebooks in the collection "Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science" - Springer

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Gerhard Heinzmann , Gereon Wolters

This open access book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter half of the 20th century. It features papers focused on integrating Lorenzen's original approach into the history of logic and mathematics. The papers also...

The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics

Mathieu Marion , Giuseppe Primiero , Shahid Rahman

The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to...

Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

Marie Duží , Bjorn Jespersen , Pavel Materna

This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons....

Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy

Michèle Friend , Norma B. Goethe , Valentina S. Harizanov

The idea of the present volume emerged in 2002 from a series of talks by Frank Stephan in 2002, and John Case in 2003, on developments of algorithmic learning theory. These talks took place in the Mathematics Department at the George Washington University. Following the...

Nature's Principles

Jan Faye , Paul Needham , Uwe Scheffler , Max Urchs

One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It begins with an...

Logic, Thought and Action

Daniel Vanderveken